July 12, 2022
The CHR warmly congratulates recipients of the 2022 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards, namely Vanessa Chen, Min’enhle Ncube and Suzana Sousa.
July 11, 2022
The CHR encourages the call for papers for the Transience and the image workshop to be convened from th1 19-20 August 2022 at the Centre for Humanities Research.
June 22, 2022
Founding CHR director and filmmaker Premesh Lalu will be in conversation with Rashid Lombard, Jayson King, Sylvia Mndunyelwa and Dinga Sikwebu about his new film The Double Futures of Athlone at the Encounters South African Documentary International Film Festival. The panel will be moderated by Valmont Layne.
June 22, 2022
The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a presentation by professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Livio Sansone.
June 22, 2022
The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a presentation by dancer and choreographer, theatre-maker and director, producer, and academic researcher, jackï job.
June 14, 2022
The CHR is delighted to announce critical theorist and filmmaker Domietta Torlasco will be in conversation with the documentary film class about her new film Garfield Park, USA.
June 14, 2022
The CHR is delighted to announce artists in residence, Ukwanda Puppets Collective's collaborative puppetry performance, will be performing at at the Augsburg Staatstheater in Germany this July.
June 13, 2022
The CHR is delighted to announce the film screening of Founding Director Premesh Lalu’s documentary film The Double Futures of Athlone at the annual Encounters South African International Film Festival.
June 1, 2022
New Archival Visions Fellow, PhD
May 30, 2022
We are delighted to announce the appointment of four Doctoral fellows to the New Archival Visions Programme in 2022. This is part of the university's effort to revitalise its humanities archival holdings and arises from recommendations contained in a White Paper titled: Revitalising UWC Research Archives that was produced by Professor Patricia Hayes, Dr Valmont Layne and Dr Anthea Josias.
May 26, 2022
The CHR is pleased to announce the honouring of the achievements of Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, founders of Handspring Puppet Company, who will receive honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, the Jackman Humanities Institute, in June 2022.
May 24, 2022
The CHR is delighted is announce CHR doctoral fellow, Zuko Wonderfull Sikhafungana, will be staging his production The Crime Scene at the National Arts Festival this year.